It's interesting to see what Fransisco has to say about "God" as the shadow of the predominate class in our society. Does God just become a tool for this predominate class? If indeed it does, what does that say about women in "God's" society? Fransisco seems to suggest that women are being objectified for the use of the predominate class. Prior to having taken this course, I might have hesitated to agree...But after taking a second look, a harder gaze, I would have to say that he is right. I get behind what he's saying, and it speaks volumes about what is happening through religious means in our society.
Supporting the "shadow" of God becomes a platform for the calculated oppression of minorities, or "others." Anyone who is not the predominate class becomes lesser than the predominate class, and it is paraded as truth by means of "divine authority."
Is it strange to think of God as ungendered? Would it be helpful or counterproductive to think of God as "she?"
Just wondering...Here's the link to the video
"Now a man was born to go a lovin'....But was a woman born to weep and fret? And stay at home and tend her oven...And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarettes..." -- k. d. Lang, "Black Coffee"
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